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Regional fears of a U.S. attack on Iran have eased after President Donald Trump said Tehran had assured him that protesters ...

The Soviet Union built the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, but just before its test, engineers deliberately reduced ...

In the face of such facts, Trump changed his story. He said that Russia and China are conducting secret nuclear tests and ...

Even at the height of their Cold War nuclear rivalry, the United States and the Soviet Union thrashed out a series of ...

In the panic after Sputnik, the US Air Force backed a classified study that explored detonating an atomic bomb on the Moon to ...

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On the Wednesday, January 7, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: “The Nuclear Sponge” is a five-part project by USA TODAY ...

He played a key role in ending apartheid South Africa’s secret weapons program in the 1980s by helping the African National ...